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CELEBRATION episode

Season 7 Episode 2 | 55m 06s

Discover the role craft plays in our winter holiday traditions, rituals, and festivities. Featuring lion dancers and float builders for San Francisco’s acclaimed Chinese New Year Parade, artists in Michigan making ceramics for the holidays at Pewabic (Detroit) and Motawi Tileworks (Ann Arbor), Kwanzaa celebrations with artists in Chicago and Oakland, and Christmas card making with Yoshiko Yamamoto

Aired: 12/10/15
Extras
Fiber artist L'Merchie Frazier uses her art to tell the untold African American stories
Watch a preview of EAST highlighting diverse expressions behind modern craft in the eastern region
Watch a preview of WEST, celebrating the continuum of heritage and handmade in the American west.
Community at the Institute of American Indian Arts
IAIA student Whisper Crow Dog & IAIA alumni on Terran Last Gun on ledger art
Meet engravers and silversmiths at the silversmithing traditional cowboy arts symposium
Pop-up book artist Colette Fu on her books based on her travels to China
Bisa Butler's first artistic influences
Hawaiian cordage and knotting and feather standards in 'Iolani Palace
Nina Zannieri, Executive Director of the Paul Revere House on Paul Revere's Midnight Ride.
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